Vanilla 2 had 0 to grind for. I know a lot of hardcore player types complained about how everyone was reaching max light but I didn’t feel like max level was what I played Destiny for. I mean yeah, back then as a solo I had to be max everything if I wanted to join a raid team gg LFG but for me the game was the random rolls. Maybe that number up in the corner is important to some but It was the random god rolls that dropped and the exotics. Vanilla 2 had 0 of that. It had double primaries. It had weak guardians. It had pathetic mods(still does I’m told). Crap exotics. And everything neutered for the sake of the pvp centered design that Bungie created because they thought everyone wanted that e-sport dream. Hell, their damn raid gear didn’t even have perks and the Gauntlet was not color blind friendly. Wiped a team a few times because I wasn’t able to see those flashing rings even with the minimal color blind settings Bungie has available turned on when I first ran it. I don’t remember how often I played but it wasn’t much. I know the game hit pretty pathetic numbers around CoO. Someone said it was like 500k total on all 3 platforms. I didn’t spend my money on Forsaken but I bought it after it had come out when a clan member had told me that it was better than when I had stopped playing and it was till I just couldn’t tolerate that pathetic RNG system that gave me 80% class item drops for damn near 3 months. Rng started pushing me away from the game. The fixation on cores and no fixes to many other things were what pushed me away completely in Feb. I tried to like the game, I really did. Hell I made like 8 characters trying to enjoy the game. I just couldn’t go on fighting the system anymore. I just couldn’t bring myself to think things would be better the next log in anymore. So now I’m standing on the side watching and hoping the game can return to some semblance of what I loved but after nearly 3k or more hrs in the Destiny universe I just have to hang up my Tea Napkins.